From: Alan Dowds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: MD: MD and Creative Soundblaster Platinum
> Is it just me, or is the Creative software a bit fiddly?
Not my personal choice of words on that one..... I'd go for something a bit
more "colourful".....
What I find a little odd is that you said you can play the CD using Windows
CD Player, and record to a WAV, which would indicate that the drive is
connected properly. Can you hear the CD playing whist recording or not? Have
you checked in the mixer to make sure you haven't set it to "mute" the CD?
> What I really want to do is use the LiveDrive to get optical digital out
> from CDs (my hi fi CD deck is a Cambridge Audio with only co-ax out)
Easiest way if your CD drive isn't being friendly is to connect the
Cambridge CD to the "SPDIF In" on the LiveDrive, You'll then need to go to
the mixer (I always use Windows mixer / Play Control) and turn the volume
for "SPDIF-In/Auxillary2" all the way up. You then click on the "Advanced"
button bneat the slider you just moved and make sure "Enable Auxilary 2" is
*unchecked*.
Of course, if you just want to record CDs digitally, you would be better off
building a cheap converter to take the coax output of your Cambridge Audio
CD player and convert it into Optical for your MD. There'll be a project for
this on www.minidisc.org in the projects section, and because there will be
no "sample rate conversion -> mixing -> sample rate reconversion" happening,
you'll actually get far better quality.
Magic
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is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration."
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